STUDY GUIDE OUTLINE (PANDEMIC)

EDITOR’S NOTE
Here is a revised and updated edition of the Blue Barn Study Guide Outline #1 PANDEMIC that was so well received by so many on the general list of internet readers of the FCF. The study guide was originally broadcast as a Sept. 27, 2005 email transmit to our 800 plus readers and was consequently forwarded to still others, who in turn sent inquiries back to our address. Authoritative sources, both historical and scientific, are cited and linked at the end of each short description and recent additional readings since our first transmit are included at the end of the scroll.

My original clue to delve into this subject occurred when I discovered from news sources that President Bush had in early August taken a short list of books to read during his interminable vacations to his Crawford, Texas ranch. One of the books listed was on the subject of the Great Flu Pandemic of 1918. I wondered at that time what motivated a man who had acknowledged in public to rarely reading newspapers, let alone books. What were his advisers telling him? Since that time a recent press conference held by President Bush on the White House lawn where he answered a question pertaining to ‘bird flu’ revealed his thinking of the use of the military and mass quarantines of unnamed regions of the country.

The
Blue Barn’s
Study Guide Outline #1
“Pandemic”

“Little girls jump rope to a grim new rhyme:

‘I had a little bird,

And its name was Enza

I opened the door,

And in-flew-Enza.’ ”

Philadelphia, Penn. 1918 Newspaper Account
October 17: 1,686 new cases, 711 deaths.
The pandemic had been spreading for 120 days across Pennsylvania and the world. “The passage of the ‘Spanish Lady’ through the streets of Philadelphia left in its wake 12,191 reported deaths and 47,094 reported cases in four weeks and a business community crippled by revenue-losses in the millions.”

A
HISTORY OF THE 1918
PANDEMIC AS IT STARTED
IN KANSAS.

Start here to begin your study guide:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Flu


Local Kansas history of the 1918 pandemic describing the breakdown of logistical support and the propaganda purposes the disease was used for during the first World War:
http://tinyurl.com/cl2de

What happened when the Great Epidemic struck at Ft. Riley, KS 1918?
http://tinyurl.com/bl85h

A perspective from 1918 New York during the time of the pandemic, interesting, but slightly skewed
(This selection contains a list of practical “precautions” people used from contemporaneous newspapers):
http://tinyurl.com/awcx8


Philadelphia had the highest death rates in the United States. Here is a story based on a compilation of period newspaper accounts.
http://tinyurl.com/7xdxn

THE SCIENCE STARTED FROM THE NECESSITY
The 1918 Flu strain may have had a “percolating” gene from pig to human and vice versa for several years before spreading worldwide.
http://tinyurl.com/azmln


A columnist writes of the frozen corpses of miners buried in 1918 at Longyearbyen, Norway, which contributed to the study referred to at the conference below:
http://tinyurl.com/dfe3h


A more detailed finding from a lonely scientist that did similar work in gene sequencing from frozen corpses in a mass grave in Alaska where 85% of the villagers died in 1918.
http://tinyurl.com/738cx


The grisly results of the expedition to Alaska yielded some results:
http://tinyurl.com/92trr


Here was a lecture delivered by one of those involved in the genetic sequencing:
http://tinyurl.com/9sebw


And critics comment on the military getting involved in all of it:
http://tinyurl.com/a2o2o


Here is an enormous listing of where the paper has since gone out to others for study and their listed results, many available for study “off line” as PDF files.
http://tinyurl.com/98ccl


The outbreak of H5N1 Avian Influenza is spreading and being tracked by the United Nations World Health Organization, but news of its arrival in the American continent will be too late for many authorities.
http://tinyurl.com/745ew


And for those who hate the United Nations so much as to discount the organization’s health services here is an on – line encyclopedia entry for this study.
http://tinyurl.com/cqwwo

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PANDEMIC PLANNING
“A BIOLOGICAL KATRINA ABOUT TO HAPPEN”
ON A WORLDWIDE SCALE
Traveling the migratory routes millions of birds, some infected and carrying H5N1 have brought it to Europe.
The UN / WHO has been sounding the alarm and British economists are projecting damage assessments.
http://tinyurl.com/c4nsj


An authoritative on – line multimedia program reporting on the pandemic currently spreading through Asia and Russia of the Avian Influenza H5N1. Must reading and listening for people in this series:
http://tinyurl.com/bbm7b


Here is the program summary for those who don’t have time for listening or watching the full program. The most recent publications and powerpoint presentations by the presenters are listed at the bottom of the page:
http://tinyurl.com/czq6x


Here is the same scientist writing in Foreign Affairs.
http://tinyurl.com/blxnl

Since posting the above scientists and doctors in Vietnam have developed a vaccination for birds and “successfully” inoculated monkeys with it. They have applied to their government to mass-produce the vaccine for humans. Mass production will not begin until early next year. Widespread news coverage of sometime contradictory reports of H5N1 found in birds in Turkey and Romania has surfaced recently. Precautionary reports on testing fowl have led to large mass killing of flocks and trade bans on any byproducts (feathers, etc.) across national borders. European news sources have made contradictory statements to news media in the last few days of this post As to whether this particular virus strain is H5N1 or another variant. A pretty extensive list of recent articles listed to the right on the site may be of interest to those researching the daily updates.

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